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The city manager's proposed budget for fiscal year 2016, which begins July 1, includes $10,426,824 to fund local nonprofits, museums and programs — up by $744,713 from the current level. Under the proposed budget, most of the 55 groups and programs receiving funding would receive the same amount as the previous year. But there's a significant change for one high-profile recipient, the Virginia Living Museum. The proposed budget says it could receive $928,007, which is what it is getting this year. But in order to receive $400,000 of that total, the museum must raise $1.2 million in private funding. That's double what the museum's fundraising goal was for...

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The city manager's proposed budget for fiscal year 2016, which begins July 1, includes $10,426,824 to fund local nonprofits, museums and programs — up by $744,713 from the current level.
Under the proposed budget, most of the 55 groups and programs...

•HUNT FOR HAMPTON HISTORY. The Hampton History Museum, 120 Old Hampton Lane, will hold one of its "Hunt for Hampton History" events on Saturday. This one focuses on the 1950s, and the museum is looking for local residents to bring in...

The earth was still rotating last week, but for a brief spell the world was spinning around Hampton University's college basketball matchup against powerhouse University of Kentucky.Meanwhile, reporters and columnists across the country began to clamor:...

City Manager Jim Bourey is proposing to hold the line on tax rates, while continuing the city's policy of boosting fees for water, sewer and trash to keep up with the rising costs of the services.
The city's general fund spending, which pays for...

The Isle of Wight County Museum is offering a series of guided walking tours of Smithfield. The next tours take place at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 5 and Saturday, May 2.Local historians and museum staff lead the tours which offer an "in-depth look...

Every year throughout the month of April, poets across America celebrate their chosen art form with special events and activities. According to poets.org, the website of the Academy of American Poets, National Poetry Month is "the largest literary...

Otherworldly color can ensnare the eyes with an irresistible pull — and seldom has it tugged more strongly than in a new video playing at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in its 20th annual juried exhibit of work by Virginia artists.
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Just because your classroom is also your living room doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get to take field trips.
The Isle of Wight County Museum is hosting a day full of Isle of Wight history for homeschool students of all ages.

In the long history of forgotten people, few groups have been as neglected as women.
But doesn't make their lost achievements any less important, says Curator J. Michael Cobb, describing the Hampton History Museum's newest exhibit.
Though belittled by...

The Chamberlin was the big winner of History Bites, the fundraising food event held Saturday at The Mariners Museum.
The culinary team from the Hampton retirement community served up a delicious mulligatawny soup, fragrant with curry, pork belly and...

Nearly 40,000 people passed through Fort Monroe's Casemate Museum during the 2014 calendar year.
That's an 11 percent jump for a museum whose staff has been on the job less than four years.
The Casemate Museum was operated by the Army for 60 years...

The York County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution last week that gives the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc. $1 million over 10 years to support the new American Revolution Museum at Yorktown. The funds will begin to be disbursed in fiscal...

Clueless about the women behind great men?
Virginia Woolf once quipped, "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." Supporting a famous husband or partner and not sharing in any of their glory was not the bane of only Victorian Age muses.
In...

Women's History Month provides an opportunity to learn more about women's role in history. The following resource guide offers local events, websites and where to look for more information.
Activities/Events
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The Virginia Living Museum opens a new exhibit on Saturday that will have you hoppin' (but hopefully not croakin').
Frogs: A Chorus of Colors opens at the Newport News museum this weekend and will remain there until Sept. 7. The exhibit...

When Chrysler Museum of Art American Art Curator Alex Mann began thinking about a new exhibit marking the 150th anniversary of the death of President Abraham Lincoln, he knew the museum's nationally known photography collection would give him a lot to...

Getting up close and personal with history isn’t hard in Isle of Wight – from the graveyard at St. Luke’s Church to the county’s historic earthworks, you will literally trip over it if you aren’t looking where you’re going.
But tracing an event from...

The exhibit "Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty" opens Saturday at the Muscarelle and runs through April 5. It's the second huge exhibit at the Muscarelle in three years, following 2013's "Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane."
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You drink it, sip it, brew it and guzzle it. If you're like a lot of people, you can't fully open your eyes without it.
But how much do you really know about your coffee?
The Mariners' Museum in Newport News is ready to shed some fascinating new light...